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Help Please!

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Mujuro

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Hello All!

I've recently purchased a new computer, and it arrived Friday. For the past two days, I've been setting it up, arranging cables, etc, and when it came time to turn it on, nothing showed on the screen, I can't hear my HDD loading (nor does the HDD activity LED show anything), and my DVD-Drive isn't working (no light, and the tray won't come out), yet my floppy drive is working smoothly. I rechecked my work, made sure everything is snug, and even rebuilt it from the motherboard up, but no luck. The fans are all working, even on the GPU. As for nothing showing up on the screen, my initial thought was that I had a faulty GPU, but I plugged it into another computer, and all was well. It booted perfectly fine, and the image was crisp. I haven't tried putting the HDD or the DVD-Drive in the other computer yet, as I want to see if it may be the motherboard. I also know, or at least I am almost positive, that electro-static caused anything as I had a wrist-band on, and I worked on tile. I should note his is my first build, and I may be missing a small detail or something that is causing these components not to work. Also, here are a few things that may be a root to the problem, but I'm not 100% sure it is the cause...

1) I accidentally used a magnetic screwdriver, as I hadn't realized it until I was 3/4 into the build.
2) When installing the heatsink (XP-90), I accidentally scratched the processor, but nothing huge from what I could tell.

Would either of these things have anything to do with my problems? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

EDIT: Forgot to include my specifications...

DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR
AMD Athlon 3200+ Venice
OCZ 2x1024MB (2GB) PC-3200 Platinum
eVGA GeForce 6600GT @ 560/1090
Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA150
NEC DVD Burner ND-3540A
OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU
Lian Li PC-61 Case / Four 80mm Fans
Thermalright XP-90 Heatsink
Panaflo 92mm Fan
 
Neither of those things should cause you an issue.
As long as the "scratch" isnt so bad that the heat sink doesnt sit flat
In general if you arent getting any beeps at power on its the processor or the mother board.
Pull the memory out and power it up, it should start beeping like crazy,
if it doesnt beep, test the processor in another board
good luck
 
^^That's what I'd do. Check those power cables as well. Make sure they're connected properly. :)
 
you say that you haven't started up your computer yet, but your video card is already overclocked? Make sure you plug in your 4 prong connectors and make sure your video card is getting juice too.

I kinda skimmed, but It doesn't sound like you could POST did you?
 
Yeah, pull the RAM out and see if it beeps like crazy. Also, if you can, grab another PSU and see if that fixes the problem. It sounds like its not pullin enough power to run everything but the floppy drive. Make sure the plugs are in nice and tight, and the plugs on the mobo are tight and clipped in properly.
A magnetic screwdriver won't do any damage at all, even to your hard drive (ie it won't corrupt any data if you install a hard drive with a magnetic screw driver). Hopefully the scratch on the CPU hadn't caused any damage. But if the HDD and the DVD don't power up, it sounds like a PSU problem, so grab another one and see if it solves it.
 
Check the jumpers or the cable for the DVD and the HDD. I have the same problem with the IDE cable installed backwards. This is with the old cable where it doesn't have the tab so it can be installed backwards
 
a magnetized screw driver wouldnt do anything. they arent strong enough. ive been using them and havent run into a problem. does anything turn on? or are you just talking about the computer in general as in it turns on but nothing goes to screen. if nothing comes on at all IE: NO POWER. then check the psu power switch. then if that dont work try checking the power connector on and off switch via motherboard. then if that dont work try resetting cmos. i took appart my computer to install my watercooling setup. when i put it back together it wouldnt bootup. it wouldnt get passed bios. all i had to do was reset cmos and it was fine. just give it a try. see wahts up.

oh yeah and sorry if i did a repost of anybody. didnt read everybodys replies.
 
try clearing cmos.. take out all hardware that you don't need for post (sound card, NIC etc.), disconnect all ide cables etc.
 
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